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Photos of the Day - August 12, 2018

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Jubillee Leander Class steam train travels North going over Ribblehead Viaduct towards Carlisle.
50 years ago steam trains on the main line railways stopped operating, 50 years on people who where witnessed the last trip are now back to watch steam strains pass over Ribblehead once again.

Charlotte Graham for The Telegraph

A Yabusame performance at the Central Moscow Hippodrome. The event is held as part of the Year of Japan and Russia and Russia and Japan and the Week of Japan in Moscow.

Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS via Getty Images

The RAF Red Arrows display team flying over Cunard's three Queens, (from left to right) Queen Victoria, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth as the world famous ships depart Southampton this evening.

Christopher Ison/PA

Rose Wyckoff holds up three kittens to a passing fire truck in a neighbourhood destroyed by the Carr Fire, in Redding, Calif. Wyckoff brought the kittens to a veterinarian after she couldn't find the mother.

John Locher/AP

Villagers scramble for used clothing at temporary shelter in Kayangan on August 11, 2018 in Lombok Island, Indonesia.
Over 300 people died after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island, Lombok, on Sunday followed by a series of aftershocks which left at least 270,000 people displaced and around 8,400 tourists and resort workers evacuated from the Gili islands.

Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

People harvest and dry fresh tomatoes using salt before exporting them to Europe, in Tunisia.

Chokri Mahjoub

A protester walks past a fire during clashes with police at a demonstration against the government in front of the Romanian Government headquarters, in Bucharest.

Andrei Pungovschi/AFP/Getty Images

A long exposure photograph shows a lightning strikes during an electrical storm in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince.

Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

An Indian woman looks down the barrel of an 84-MM rocket launcher during an Indian Army exhibition at Panther Stadium in Amritsar.

Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

Dancer Ismael Oiartzabal of Philippe Saire Company performs 'Hocus Pocus' on stage during a photocall at The Studio for the Edinburgh International Festival 2018.

Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images

A church choir is seen at the Kettleworth Scarecrow Festival.

Charlotte Graham for The Telegraph

A child is seen trapped under concrete following Syrian government forces air strikes in the rebel town of Orum al-Kubra in the northern province of Aleppo.

Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

A boy swims near floating trash during flood season in the floating village on the Mekong river bank on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Heng Sinith/AP

Young performers dance in a Bollywood dance competition in Federation Square as part of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, Australia.

William West/AFP/Getty Images

A helicopter drops water as firefighters battle a spot fire in a residential neighbourhood at the Holy Fire in Lake Elsinore, California, southeast of Los Angeles.

Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson looks on after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco.
A San Francisco jury ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to the former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease.

Josh Edelson/AP

A giant panda twin enjoys itself in an air-conditioned room at the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Flamingos move around a pen at Fuente de Piedra lake, 70 kms from Malaga during a tagging and control operation of flamingo chicks to monitor the evolution of the species.

Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

Flamingos move around a pen at Fuente de Piedra lake, 70 kms from Malaga during a tagging and control operation of flamingo chicks to monitor the evolution of the species.

Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

King Bass, 6, left, sits and watches the Holy Fire burn from on top of his parents' car as his sister Princess, 5, rests her head on his shoulder in Lake Elsinore, Calif.